Memories of Blagging

[Bonio]

I also managed to blag a Whammy bar from my friends air guitar once on BJ i think it was, He was soooo ming monged that he still does not know that i put it in a secret place in his van........

[Bob U]

The ELMS race at Silverstone a few years ago, where some gentlemen of this parish did a lap, post race, of the circuit after a few sharpeners...
Who were they ? Me, didn't see anything Your Honour...

Tee Hee

[lofty]

a couple of years ago a few of us went down to the inside of indy.i left my ticket in the van but i gave the geezer on the gatea can of chicken and he let me in.the power of english beer.l

[Andy Zarse]

The most successful 'blagging' (if you can call it that) I have done, has involved getting to know the security guy patrolling the place you want to be. It is amazing what you can get away with if you befriend the man who could say 'non'.

My favourite tale of getting a person where they don't have permission to be happened at Sebring in the '70s. Al Holbert and Michael Keyser won in 1976 in a Penthouse sponsored Porsche. Photographer Bill Warner was given the task of escorting a notable Penthouse 'pet' Anneka Di Lorenzo from a hospitality lounge to the podium ceremony. When they got to the gate of the pit lane a security guard asked to see their credentials. The guy was a 'gentleman of a certain age' rather than a strong-arm and insisted on seeing a pass. Bill was OK but the lovely Anneka had nothing. "Can I see your credentials", the guy asked .... so she lifted her blouse and showed him her assets. He was so stunned that they just breezed past while he regained his composure.

Here is the lady in question...

It's a good job she didn't hitch her skirt up instead. Holy snappin alligators! A quick look on google proves how little "hedge trimming" went on in the seventies. It's like a buffalo's forehead.

[Stu]

It's a good job she didn't hitch her skirt up instead. Holy snappin alligators! A quick look on google proves how little "hedge trimming" went on in the seventies. It's like a buffalo's forehead.

Or as a friend once said to me, ' She looked liked she had Don King in a leg lock'

[Lord Steve]

Plenty of the blue 6ft roll material with the 24 logo emblazoned on it now graces the walls of 2 garages in North Lincs and Hertfordshire. Oh and not forgetting the very wet night when Vavina Ickx let me dry out in her trailer before continuing my long treck back to Houx.

[spoonies]

Plenty of the blue 6ft roll material with the 24 logo emblazoned on it now graces the walls of 2 garages in North Lincs and Hertfordshire.

I was nearly thrown off the Jaguar Enthusiasts Club enclosure at Houx Annexe when they saw me with 10 meters of this rolled up under my arm. It is also now proudly displayed in my garage in Lincs as a backdrop to the Scalextric!

[Ade]

Plenty of the blue 6ft roll material with the 24 logo emblazoned on it now graces the walls of 2 garages in North Lincs and Hertfordshire. Oh and not forgetting the very wet night when Vavina Ickx let me dry out in her trailer before continuing my long treck back to Houx.

Don't forget the roll from Silverstone LMES.

[Andy Zarse]

Oh and not forgetting the very wet night when Vavina Ickx let me dry out in her trailer before continuing my long treck back to Houx.

You were in a terrible state, it looked like you'd been eaten alive. We could only speculate:

"Oooh Monsieur Steve, take those wet things off and lie down on the velveteen banquette... pfft does it* always swell like zis when it gets wet? Let me dry it out... Ah donc! Ooooh lala!! Monsieur Steve! Sacre bleu!"





(*refering to his Lordship's string vest)

[Bonio]

Oh and not forgetting the very wet night when Vavina Ickx let me dry out in her trailer before continuing my long treck back to Houx.

Lucky, lucky Barstool.....

[Canada Phil]

Plenty of the blue 6ft roll material with the 24 logo emblazoned on it now graces the walls of 2 garages in North Lincs and Hertfordshire. Oh and not forgetting the very wet night when Vavina Ickx let me dry out in her trailer before continuing my long treck back to Houx.

Hi Steve,
            You keep telling that Vavina story as though it is true 
Phil

[Brad Zarse]

British Grand Prix - 1994.  Damon Hill had just claimed his only British Grand Prix victory.  When the racing finished, the marshalls buggered off, leaving the circuit open for people to walk around if they wanted to.   As we entered the track at Luffield, there was a small window during which the pit-lane was unguarded.  So my old man and I hot footed it across and had a look round. 

Sauber in those days, weren't overly reliable, and in that race, I think both cars had gone out fairly early doors.  They'd cleared up, and left their garages open.  So we walked through.   

That evening, I met Damon Hill, Mika Hakkinen, Johnny Herbert, Our future mate at Le-Mans Jay Kay, Murray Walker, Patrick Head, and had a rather unfortunate conversation with a man who my old man thought was Gordon Murray.....It wasn't - but that didn't stop me asking for his autograph..... 

I was 13 in 1994....as a massive fan of F1 at that time, this was essentially all of my dreams blagged, in one foul swoop........

[Lord Steve]

Plenty of the blue 6ft roll material with the 24 logo emblazoned on it now graces the walls of 2 garages in North Lincs and Hertfordshire. Oh and not forgetting the very wet night when Vavina Ickx let me dry out in her trailer before continuing my long treck back to Houx.

Hi Steve,
            You keep telling that Vavina story as though it is true 
Phil

Phil - Do you doubt me my friend? She wasn't going to let me stay in her trailer (I did beg) nor did she fancy walking back to Houx with me. Shame really, my tardis-like 2 man tent was just the ticket!

[Lord Steve]

Plenty of the blue 6ft roll material with the 24 logo emblazoned on it now graces the walls of 2 garages in North Lincs and Hertfordshire. Oh and not forgetting the very wet night when Vavina Ickx let me dry out in her trailer before continuing my long treck back to Houx.

Don't forget the roll from Silverstone LMES.

Made a very fetching curtain that did Ade.

[lofty]

I also managed to blag a Whammy bar from my friends air guitar once on BJ i think it was, He was soooo ming monged that he still does not know that i put it in a secret place in his van........
oi pat i just spent 50 euros on a new one and a strap.you can buy the old whammy of me.me ming monged....never.